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03-05-2014, 06:56 AM
MASS ABDUCTION, SEX ASSAULT SHOCKS HAPPY VALLEY

Monday, June 23

In a statement issued Monday morning, the Happy Valley Police Department released details of a bizarre mass kidnapping and sexual assault that occurred in a forested area near the Three Pines Reservoir early Saturday. The incident sent shockwaves through a community that has been shaken by an unexplained sharp rise in both the frequency and seriousness of violent sex crimes over the past several years. At around 7:45 Saturday morning a Happy Valley Baptist Church bus, carrying church Pastor Uriah Wiekling, 42, his wife Prudence, 40, and 46 members of the Chastity Unto Marriage organization for young adult couples, left the church for a two-day Prayer and Purity retreat in Lake Viola State Park. The bus was forced to stop ten miles south of the town on County Road E by two black vans blocking the road. Two male and two female assailants wearing ski masks and carrying automatic weapons boarded the bus and forced Pastor Wiekling to drive several miles down a little-used dirt road into the dense forest with the vans following behind. The hijackers then ordered everyone off of the bus, and what investigators have called a "day of hell," an "unthinkable atrocity," and a "ten-hour nightmare" began.

Another six masked and armed male and female perpetrators from the vans joined the initial four, lined their captives up against the bus and forced them to disrobe, firing several warning shots into the bus behind them when some of them hesitated to strip completely. They then tied the victims' hands behind their backs, gagged them with duct tape, and marched them naked at gunpoint down a narrow trail to a clearing about a quarter of a mile off the road. "They had it all planned in advance," Happy Valley Police Chief Morv Siemens told the Gazette. "Those posts in the ground, hundreds of bundles of rope all laid out. They knew exactly what they were going to do that day, and to whom. Very well-organized." The Pastor and his wife were tied spread-eagle and facing each other between two pairs of tall posts set into the ground. The perpetrators began whipping the Wieklings with leather belts taken from their captives, while the 23 young couples were forced to lie face-to-face in the grass and then were bound tightly together with ropes. "Those poor young people had no choice," Siemens stated. "It must have been shocking for them, all of them virgins, hardly even knowing what sex was, other than a pathway to sin, being so dedicated to that stup— to that Chastity thing, and then to be suddenly roped together naked like that, in that position, her legs wrapped around his, all of them struggling and terrified. Any of them who weren't performing actively enough got whipped until they did. It was aweso— er, awful. Just awful." The assailants continued sadistically torturing the frantically struggling Wieklings over the course of several hours, taking turns repeatedly raping both of them as well, while making sure their other victims were continuously engaged in intercourse in full view of the Pastor and his wife. At around 2:00 P.M. a radio news report about the search for the missing bus finally induced the perpetrators to depart the clearing, leaving their victims helpless in their bonds until a Police Department helicopter pilot spotted the stricken church bus at around 4:10 P.M.

The first rescuers to arrive at the clearing described a scene of horror. "Pastor and Mrs. Wiekling just hung there naked, limp and incoherent, staring blankly, covered with all kinds of welts and bruises. They both must have been raped a couple of dozen times each." one officer said. The victimized couples were still bound tightly together, many of them still actively having sex, telling their rescuers that they were doing so out of fear that their captors would return. "There were nude, bound and gagged couples squirming and moaning on the ground everywhere... We got them all untied as quickly as we could," another officer stated. "Some of them were so deeply traumatized that we had to pull them off of each other even after they were free." All of the victims were taken to Mercy Regional Hospital, where Pastor and Mrs. Wiekling remain under observation. The 46 other victims were treated for various minor injuries and released. Police Chief Siemens has promised a thorough pursuit of the criminals, stating that he will personally lead a team of himself and nine other hand-picked investigators, and encouraging any members of the public to contact him privately with any information that might further the investigation. A source close to the Wieklings' Chastity Unto Marriage movement, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Gazette that the controversial organization would most likely disband. "There's really not much point in it now," the source said.